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Expanding the Grid user community
The nanoHUB's success has been overwhelming: in the past year alone, it has provided the interface for more than 65,000 job submissions launched by more than 1000 users--70 percent of whom are students using it for university coursework. And another 6,000 members of the nanoscience community have used the nanoHUB to access online workshops and seminars. "The NCN is defining a new model to serve the computational community and the public at large," says Sebastian Goasguen, a research scientist at ITaP (IT at Purdue) who leads the deployment effort of the nanoHUB funded through the NSF National Middleware Initiative (NMI). "Each application is packaged with all the materials researchers or students need to learn and do research on specific subjects." This packaging takes the form of portable, XML-based "learning modules" that can be downloaded via Web browser and accessed in any user environment. Ultimately, the hope is that the nanoHUB's function as a TeraGrid science gateway will provide other science and engineering communities with an idea of what's possible--that what works for one area of science can be transferred into other areas as well. Says Tim Cockerill, Project Manager for the TeraGrid, "TeraGrid's relationship with nanoHub is a prime example of how our Science Gateway partners utilize some of the National Science Foundation's most powerful high performance computing resources. Through Science Gateways we are able to reach out to communities of engineers, scientists, and educators who most likely would not have this opportunity otherwise." This research is funded by the National Science Foundation, Indiana 21st Century Fund, and ARO. For further information: Team Members
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